Shortlist 3d

From Horizon Project

2008 Short List [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Webware Collaborative Workspaces Simple Video Capture and Sharing Community Tagging [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years Mobile Geotagging Socially-Centered Virtual Worlds Scholarly Mashups [edit] Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years Collective Intelligence Social Operating Systems Open Education Resources Alternative Interaction Devices [edit] Key Trends Growing use of Web 2.0 and social networking tools is changing our ideas of scholarly contribution and community Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are pushing the boundaries of scholarship As the amount and variety of content increases, it is becoming more difficult to filter the noise to find the signal Smaller, more powerful devices are offering increased access and portability The gap between students’ perception of technology and that of faculty continues to grow The environment of higher education continues to change, with a growing trend toward open innovation [edit] Critical Challenges Academic review and faculty rewards are increasingly out of sync with new forms of scholarship Assessment of new forms of work continues to present a challenge to educators and peer reviewers There are significant shifts taking place in scholarship, research, creative expression, and learning, and a need for innovation and leadership at all levels of the academy There is a growing need for formal instruction in 21st-century literacies, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy Higher education is facing a growing expectation to deliver services, content and media to mobile and personal devices The renewed emphasis on collaborative learning is pushing the educational community to develop new forms of interaction and assessment

Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years

[edit] Alternative Interaction Devices

Nintendo rocked the console-gaming world with the release of the Wii and its “wand” controller. Apple’s iPhone, with its all-touchscreen controls, did the same for the world of mobile phones. These and other alternatives to the keyboard, the mouse, and traditional controllers are just beginning to suggest new ways to interact with computers and other devices—ways that are based on movements that are more closely associated with the task at hand, easier to do in a hurry, or more natural. Some have experimented with connecting the Wii with a personal computer to use as a gaming interface (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkX1oQsvNe0).

Perceptive Pixel’s multi-touch system (http://www.perceptivepixel.com) reacts to multiple areas of contact (i.e. all the fingers on both hands, or several people’s hands at one time), allowing a more natural, gestural movement than single-touch interfaces. Technology like this, combined with more affordable large screens and video hardware capable of large-scale, multiscreen projection, will lead to new interfaces and displays that take advantage of the increased size and resolution. The result, still several years away, will be interaction devices that are as big a leap over the mouse as the mouse was over typing at the command line.

[edit] Relevance for Teaching, Learning & Creative Expression

• Applications for education are still on the far horizon, but it is clear that natural interfaces will enable users to interact with computers more quickly and comfortably than is currently possible.
• Large-scale multi-touch input devices could allow groups to work together without having to “pass the mouse.”

[edit] Examples

• Purdue University’s Envison Center researches scientific visualization and human computer interaction: http://www.envision.purdue.edu/
• Microsoft’s Surface is a tabletop, touch-sensitive computer: http://www.surface.com
• Apple’s iPhone features a small multi-touch interface: http://www.apple.com/iphone

[edit] For Further Reading

Microsoft Surface: Behind-the-Scenes First Look (with Video)
(Glenn Derene, Popular Mechanics, July 2007)
This article (and video) describe the Microsoft Surface, scheduled to appear in hospitality and entertainment venues in spring 2008. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html

Multi-Touch Interaction Roundup
(Chris O’Shea, Pixelsumo, February, 2006)
This article describes a variety of multi-touch interaction interfaces. http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/multi-touch-interaction

Wii Controllers
(Nintendo Website, retrieved November 30, 2007)
This page describes the Nintendo Wii’s unique motion-sensing controller. http://wii.nintendo.com/controller.jsp

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